The Praise of Folly
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9371/pg9371.html
Project Gutenberg's e-text of Erasmus's The Praise of Folly.
Review: Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/mar/29/featuresreviews.guardianreview29
A review from The Guardian extolling the merits of the text and why modern readers should have it on their bookshelf.
Desiderius Erasmus
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/erasmus/
An entry on the author from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.